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What have you changed your mind about?: today's leading minds rethink everything
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From the Book - First edition.
Seeing through a carbon lens / Chris Anderson
Pan-sentience / Brian Goodwin
Optimizing our design / Sam Harris
The Popperian sound bite / Rebecca Goldstein
Specialized intelligences / Roger C. Schank
What could a neuron "want"? / Daniel C. Dennett
"Where are you, Sue?" / Susan Blackmore
Solving the hard problem / Nicholas Humphrey
Neuroscience and philosophy / Barry C. Smith
Wiggle room / Jesse Bering
We are custodians of a posthuman future / Martin Rees
Finite and edgeless / Janna Levin
Reconsolidating memory / Joseph Ledoux
The internet and centralization of power / Nicholas Carr
Cyberspace has become just another place to do business / Douglas Rushkoff
To unify or not to unify / Marcelo Gleiser
Demolishing myths / Freeman Dyson
Unfettered by facts / Roger Highfield
Animal sacrifice / Daniel Engber
Where are they? / Ray Kurzweil
Might robots see God? / Rudy Rucker
Seeing ahead / Ed Regis
Everything / Nick Bostrom
The universe's escape velocity / Gino Segre
What we learn in the living realm of biology / Arnold Trehub
We differ genetically more than we thought / Mark Pagel
The limits to analogy / Piet Hut
Wrestling with Piaget / Haward Gardner
Non-veridical perception / Donald Hoffman
Gone fishing / Robert Provine
Science and democracy / Charles Seife
The trouble with relativism / Timothy Taylor
Political science / Leon Lederman
The paleolithic mind / Dan Sperber
There are no moral facts / Thomas Metzinger
Adaptation and human thought / Marc D. Hauser
The soul / Todd E. Feinberg
Mathematical objects exist only because we do / Keith Devlin
Where does grammar come from? / Daniel Everett
Nothing emerges from scratch / Gary Marcus
The overloading of Bob / David Dalrymple
The bird's-eye view and the frog's-eye view / Max Tegmark
Looking at minds / Robert Sapolsky
What is constant in you is not material / Tor Nørretranders
The four-year itch / Helen Fisher
Shifting from forward into reverse / Steve Nadis
A universe that is random and unpredictable / Paul Steinhardt
We need new metaphors / Rodney Brooks
Greenland changed my mind / William H. Calvin
In denial / J. Craig Venter
Faster than we thought / Laurence C. Smith
Irrationality and human nature / Lee M. Silver
About time / Lee Smolin
Local or nonlocal? / Stephon Alexander
We are inefficient energy engines / A. Garrett Lisi
The string-loop war / John Baez
A dark future / Lawrence Krauss
The environment sets up the brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn
The Wittgenstein straitjacket / Ernst Pöppel
The coup de grâce from space / Scott D. Sampson
The greater risk / Peter Schwartz
The collaborative community / Kevin Kelly
Non-story thinking / Alan Kay
Establishing cognitive sex differences / Diane F. Halpern
What responsible scientists must do when facts change / Stephen H. Schneider
Noise on the blog / Xeni Jardin
The robot in the wings / Sherry Turkle
Happy with what you've got / Daniel Gilbert
What constitutes life satisfaction? / Daniel Kahneman
Good old stuff sucks / Stewart Brand
Against human spaceflight / Oliver Morton
The generalization assumption / Judith Rich Harris
Spike timing in cortical neurons / Terrence Sejnowski
Hanging out with the boys / Jonathan Haidt
Standing up for atheism / Patrick Batseon
Without a God / Alan Alda
Have humans stopped evolving? / Steven Pinker
Evolution in real time / Nicholas A. Christakis
Laws as emergent with the universe / Paul Davies
Constancy of the persona / Leo M. Chalupa
Friendship and faith / Scott Atran
The marginal role of science / Marco Iacoboni
Hominoid cuisine / Richard Wrangham
How not to overthrow the system / Sean Carroll
Pay attention! / Linda Stone
The brain's equation / Stanislas Dehaene
Making and changing minds / Mary Catherine Bateson
The practice of science finds itself imperiled / Carolyn Porco
Science and technology : joined at the hip / Aubrey de Grey
"More dumbbells but more Nobels" / Helen Cronin
Against debunking / Frank Wilczek
Self-improvement / Philip Campbell
The inexplicable monks / Daniel Goleman
The sexual strategies of women / David M. Buss
Smothing science with silence / Robert Shapiro
From revolutionary to evolutionary / Brian Eno
Received wisdom / Paul Ewald
Quantum technology / Anton Zeilinger
What my students taught me / Seth Lloyd
Science's best friend / Adam Bly
The polestar / PZ Myers
Controlling your own data / Esther Dyson
VR therapy / Jaron Lanier
The power of reasons / Austin Dacey
We are not all the same / Samon Baron-Cohen
Heeding the butterfly effect / David Sloan Wilson
Programming nature / Neil Gershenfeld
Prediction engines / Paul Saffo
Making the imaginary real / Alison Gopnik
A nightmare we need to wake up from / Jordan Pollack
Electricity in the raw / George Johnson
Out among the people / Geoffrey Miller
Bleak / Steve Connor
Changing my religion / Roger Bingham
The handicap principle / Richard Dawkins
A law of laws / Gregory Benford
Operation perceptual freedom / Lera Boroditsky
The Russian colonization of North America / George B. Dyson
Stretching your mind / Jamshed Bharucha
Sexual selection : a revived teleology / Denis Dutton
Human innovation fueled human evolution / Linda S. Gottfredson
The doctrine of joint belief / Clay Shirky
Universities and the pursuit of truth / Randolph M. Nesse
Big ideas need time to soak in / David Gelernter
Consultations properly run / Mark Henderson
The social graph as the next big thing / Tim O'Reilly
The specialness of citizenship / David Goodhart
The fallacy of probability / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sample mean / Bart Kosko
Do it yourself / W. Daniel Hillis.
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Brockman, John,1941- editor
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9780061686542
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